Eleven people were killed in multiple strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean, the US military announced. Simultaneously, Ukrainian soldiers are being offered financial incentives to freeze their sperm due to a demographic crisis exacerbated by the ongoing war with Russia, and a fungal skin infection outbreak is causing concern in Minnesota.
The US Southern Command reported that the strikes resulted in the deaths of eleven "male narco-terrorists" across three vessels. Four were killed on the first vessel in the Eastern Pacific, four on a second vessel also in the Eastern Pacific, and three on a third vessel in the Caribbean. The Trump administration has conducted over 40 lethal strikes on alleged drug boats since September, according to the US Southern Command. Intelligence confirmed the vessels were "transiting along known narco-trafficking routes and were engaged in narco-trafficking operations."
In Ukraine, the ongoing war has created a significant demographic crisis. To address this, the government is providing financial support for soldiers to freeze their sperm. "Our men are dying. The Ukrainian gene pool is dying. This is about the survival of our nation," said a soldier serving with Ukraine's National Guard, speaking from the frontline. He recently visited a clinic in Kyiv to leave a sperm sample, at his wife's urging.
Meanwhile, Minnesota health officials are warning of an outbreak of a contagious fungal skin infection caused by Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII (TMVII), the same fungus that causes ringworm. The primary symptom is round, red, irritated rashes that spread across the body, which can be itchy and painful, according to a state health alert.
In other news, police have identified Robert Dorgan, also known as Roberta Esposito, as the suspect in a shooting at a high school ice hockey game in Rhode Island. The shooting at the Dennis M Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, resulted in the deaths of two people and injuries to three others. Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves stated that Dorgan died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound and that the incident "may be a family dispute."
Finally, the UK's Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, has pledged to tighten legislation around AI chatbots, following the government's "battle" with X over its AI assistant Grok creating non-consensual sexual deepfakes. Government proposals also include a measure requiring tech giants to preserve all of the data on a child's phone if they die.
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